We are seeing slow query performance on elastic-search. This coincide with increase in search queue size but at the same time active search threads as a percentage of search thread pool size is pretty low. This indicate that even though we have many threads that could be assigned to the search reque…

Longer search queue when we have low search thread utilization

amishar (Amit) December 16, 2020, 5:22pm 3

You are right. It did not make sense. Thanks. Turns out that the metrics were rolled up avg vs max. So in fact were were hitting 100% active thread when the queue size started to accumulate.

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Longer search queue when we have low search thread utilization

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